Mississippi current speed
I am planning for a possible yacht delivery later in the spring from Green
Turtle Bay on the Cumberland River, down the Cumberland and Ohio to the
Mississippi and then 222 miles upstream to the junction of the Illinois. I
am unable to find a website with the speed of the River current. I can find
waiting time at locks, vessel locations and cubic feed/second, but not
current in mph or knots. Anyone know of such a site?
Also, is the Quimby's cruising guide still the "only game in town" for those
waters?
Gary Corn
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From: "Gary Corn and Gail Eades" g3evolution@charter.net
. I can find
waiting time at locks, vessel locations and cubic feed/second, but not
current in mph or knots. Anyone know of such a site?
When we brought a boat from the Tenn River through the Ohio, Miss, and on to
the Arkansas last year, we found a chart that related either cu ft / second,
or river level, to speed of current. But neither me or my co captain can
remember where we got it. Good news : It does exist Bad news: Don't know
where.
Brent
RE: Speed of river current
My background is that I work in the Command Center, USCG Sector Portland,
OR. I'm also a small boat Coxswain on the water. Your question is about
the Mississippi, but speed of river current is something that we work with
all the time in search and rescue. In our case, the Columbia, Snake, and
Willamette primarily.
There is no easy answer. The river travels at different speeds in different
places. The main channel moves faster than the bank. The surface moves at
a different speed than at depth. It isn't even all going the same direction
all the time.
Factors are precipitation, runoff, dam releases, and tides.
All that being said, your question was for a web site. Here's a good place
to start.
I have a lot to learn about the dynamics of the river, and it's something I
try to understand on a daily basis.
Happy cruising,
Todd Mains
Scappoose, OR
Isn't google a wonderful thing
I entered
usacoe mississippi currents
and found quite a bit of info
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Gary Corn and Gail Eades
g3evolution@charter.net wrote:
I am planning for a possible yacht delivery later in the spring from Green
Turtle Bay on the Cumberland River, down the Cumberland and Ohio to the
Mississippi and then 222 miles upstream to the junction of the Illinois. I
am unable to find a website with the speed of the River current. I can find
waiting time at locks, vessel locations and cubic feed/second, but not
current in mph or knots. Anyone know of such a site?
Also, is the Quimby's cruising guide still the "only game in town" for those
waters?
Gary Corn
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HELP
I think I found the data website Gary and others mentioned, but for some
reason I was unable to "cut and paste" the URL into an email text message.
Ever since the last automatic update to my XP software I have had all sort
of minor glitches to how my program works. The tool bars look slightly
different and things work slightly different than the yused to or at least
as I remember them to work. I know I'm not the only one with this problem.
For example, I recall having a place in my tool bar that gave the exact
address of whatever I happened to be looking at.
That's gone. How do I get it back? I used have a ton of marine related
websites but I can no longer find them. What happened?
Arild
Gary - Google 'Corps of Engineers Rock Island'. You will find a link to their homepage which has their phone number ((800) 799-8302), etc. Call them up and have a talk. This the HQ for the Upper Mississippi River COE (at my home town). I've also included the link below.
Also suggest that you get a copy of their COE Mississippi River Chart. This shows (among other things) the channel and the locations of those all important wing dams?THAT YOU DO NOT WANT TO HIT. In many places, the wing dams run almost up to the channel. It is available in hard copy from them and is also online. Note it does not include depths. But . . . the channel is maintained by the COE to a minimum depth of 9 ft. Go outside the channel at your own risk.
One more thing in case you don't know: Whenever?the COE provides river channel depth, it will be the depth above the 9 ft level. So if they say the depth is 5 ft at Lock and Dam 15, then it is really 14 ft there in the channel. My hometown newspaper contains this info and there would always be someone who would think the river was only?4 ft deep (for instance)?because that's what was shown as the river depth there on that particular day.
Tim Behan
http://www.mvr.usace.army.mil/
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From: Gary Corn and Gail Eades g3evolution@charter.net
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Subject: T&T: Mississippi current speed
I am planning for a possible yacht delivery later in the spring from Green
Turtle Bay on the Cumberland River, down the Cumberland and Ohio to the
Mississippi and then 222 miles upstream to the junction of the Illinois. I
am unable to find a website with the speed of the River current. I can find
waiting time at locks, vessel locations and cubic feed/second, but not
current in mph or knots. Anyone know of such a site?
Also, is the Quimby's cruising guide still the "only game in town" for those
waters?
Gary Corn
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